NOTES
Originally broadcast on 14th November 2016, this was captured live off air from a BBC Radio Three repeat broadcast during Jazz Now on 31st July 2017. Source was the BBC HLS 323kbps 48kHz internet stream.

Audition was used to remove announcer, move interview to before show, add fades at start and end of sets, increase levels by 6dB, track and convert to FLAC/44.1kHz. FLAC tagging done using mp3tag and fingerprints generated using TLH.

source
sbd recording, from my friends in denmark + norway
aired live on 2017-08-26
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this NOT an audio extract from the video (that has a quality of only 192kbps)
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Thanks unclewolfi!!! Awesome recording.
I think the first 2 pieces are mainly improvised themes, converging into a "song".
- in the first piece, "Staircase" (from "Sargasso Sea") starts at 19:25
- in the second one, "Afterthoughts" (from "Characters") starts at 5:43

John has been a huge and true inspiration. A one-of-a-kind artist. R.I.P.

in the first piece from around 11:00 to 17:50 they play abercrombie's "ralph's piano waltz"
a big thank you for the abercrombie uploads

Thursday, August 24, 2017

this trio sound like Bright Size Life as written by Scofield and played by, say, Frisell, with Junius Paul emulating teen town... most of these tracks are McCraven own compositions. Also included in the folder, marked as track 00, a radio introduction in ITALIAN with bio notes and commentaries - this intro runs for 3'58", you can skip downloading it if you don't understand italian.

Thanks as always to Lewojazz for recording this best quality source, it needed relatively little
editing. This was mainly the rough program edits between tracks (which may mean there is one or
more further tracks to come) plus the hum on the right channel.

Heather Leigh brings a more airy and serene edge to sections of the gig amid the more usual Full
Blast mayhem, so I hope folks will like this expanded grouping.

Monday, August 14, 2017

The first album of these three enthusiastic Europeans with access to the Mediterranean was released ten years ago. Since then the trio has played over 150 concerts in over 20 countries. Now comes part two of Mare Nostrum, and again with a top-class musical feast, featuring excellent own compositions as well as two intriguing interpretations of classical tunes. They are drawing a bridge from the 17th to the 20th century, from Claudio Monteverdi’s “Si dolche è il tormento” to Erik Satie’s “Gnossienne No. 1”.

The AACM played 6 different shows in three days, with 6 different programs, by six different composer. All six of them will be broadcast by italian radio.
The show was strangely broadcast in two different sets, one after another divided by a station ID and a brief radio intro (between t02 and t03, for just a bit more than a minute) that I edited for continous listening. Later included in the folder, marked as track t00, a long radio introduction in ITALIAN - this intro runs for 7'29", you can skip downloading it if you don't understand italian.
Also included the usual magical cover artwork by FASTONE, whom thanks are advised to.

NOTE:
due to the fact that the radio announcer Pino Saulo says during the introduction of the AACM2 show that "the last song fades out because of recording space and I apologize for the rest of the set not being recorded", I am assuming that all these Umbria Jazz 2009 sets are recorded on removable 80 mins media (such as blank MDs or CDRs). So, the bad news is that these Umbria Jazz sets are all possibly incomplete, and the missing tracks/encores, where there are any, are not even recorded: the good news is that these broadcasts will all fit one only CDR... But, as I said, this is just my assumption.
NOTE: In this case we DO know that the last track of the show is missing - Episode 2 for Creative Ensemble (by Nicole Mitchell).

Source: SBD
Internet link: http://www.festivalcalagononejazz.it/Programma2009.pdf
Actually wasn't as announced Michael Sarin on drums but a young guy named Rudy Royston (terrific!).
The venue was astounding and the music GREAT!

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